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Wong Kar Wai (1 car why) box confirmed for 2020 via New Year’s clue.

"Fell"-"e"-nee box is the top left one.
Fellini box seems confirmed.

And here's the actual doodle:

Good guess from Reddit.

Bottom right is Robert E. Lee with a bruised eye so Bruised Lee -> Bruce Lee box-set.

Agnes (on yes) Varda box

Agnes (on-yes) Varda is the bottom left.

What a pathetic New Years clue, not even worth making a thread for. RIP tradition

Top right is WKW box (one car why)

Other top one is the Fellini box set (Fallen E).

They were both called already up thread. Before drawing was posted.

3 of the 4 are already known. Bruce Lee Box is the only new clue. Disappointing CC.

Yes, but I'm not sure it is as bad as the 2018 drawing that was mostly filmstruck

4 clues hasn’t stopped people on Twitter and Reddit from making terrible, terrible guesses, among them:

Roma
Back to the Future
Freddy Got Fingered
Inland Empire
Out 1

(Since we solved it pretty quickly, consider this a surrogate for those guesses that get the thread locked.)

What’s worse than the already lazy four separate newsletter clues rather than an interactive overlapping puzzle to decipher is the realization that there will be no surprise box sets in 2020. This is an impressive slate of production (if they can even pull off all four in one year) but I can’t say I’m excited about any too much and love the prospect at what boxes they’re going to release, aside from the usual one known one. Double whammy.

To be fair, if they had found a way to make a Bogdanovich box clue I probably wouldn’t be complaining.

Clearly you would need to just put an ascot around Texas.

4 clues (klues)? This is clearly a sign that Criterion is going to start producing 4k blu-rays.

Well, this is disappointing. Though happy that it seems a WKW box is actually happening.

This clue feels like their version of this post

A disappointing New Year’s clue? Un Huge Disappointment? UHD incoming??

Clarence wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2020 6:07 pm A disappointing New Year’s clue? Un Huge Disappointment? UHD incoming?

Okay, this one’s funny

Oh thank God finally someone is releasing Bruce Lee's movies on home video.

(mind you, if it was a Bruceploitation box I'd be beside myself)

These are terrible clues, and such small portions

DarkImbecile wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2020 6:00 pm This clue feels like their version of this post

If only you knew how much energy it took for me to post even that much

I doubt if Criterion will be allowed to color correct the Bruce Lee titles, so the Shout Select Blu-rays will still be the preferred versions (even with the subtitle issues on a few of them.) It would be nice, however, if they were able to license Enter the Dragon and give it a new 4k master as both the WB Blu-rays are subpar.